Monday Poetry: 'Sherborne Missal Chaffinch'

A Weekly Original Poem

This week’s poem takes an image from the Sherborne Missal as its starting point. You can read more about the Missal here.

You have blessed us, our winter wide margin
blushed with your chest not yet matured to blood,
your crown descending, royal to midnight blue.
Eyeing our gridlocked song in sympathy
you, whose throated joy demands a sky to
sound it back, li…